Amanda-Users

Re: backup run stalled- how to restart?

2004-11-19 11:13:37
Subject: Re: backup run stalled- how to restart?
From: Eric Sproul <esproul AT ntelos DOT net>
To: Gavin Henry <ghenry AT suretecsystems DOT com>
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 11:02:29 -0500
On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 10:10, Gavin Henry wrote:
> Eric Sproul said:
> > Is there a way to kickstart the rest of the waiting dumpers?  I have not
> > done anything yet.
> >
> > An amadmin summary reports 165 total partitions, 99 done, 1 "dumping"
> > (but it's actually stalled), and 65 waiting to dump.
> >
> 
> I don't think so. I think you will have to kill it and then run amcleanup:
> 
> http://www.amanda.org/docs/manpages/amcleanup.8.html
> 
> I may be wrong.

I figured that, but as it turns out, the dumps seemed to have picked up
again on their own.  I'm not sure what the delay was all about but I'm
not going to question it.  :)

Thanks,
Eric